First Movie

Watched my first movie of the year – Solomon Kane – like the movie but then I kind of like all action movies. One of those redemption kind of story line and the hero finally learns of his destiny. Hopefully can catch The Green Hornet before it ends.

Mad Mad Mad Rush

Its the Lunar New Year Period again. The Tiger year ends and the bouncing Bunny year starts. As usual there is always that mad rush to get things done before Chinese New Year. I recently got my yearly (ya ya I know should be half yearly but I’m lazy) dental checkup, had my eyes check again as well. Did the house cleaning and packing … still in progress …. goodies shopping which was really hampered by the rain rain rain and more rain rain rain, It does not seem to want to stop this rain. I think the stalls at Chinatown are suffering due to this and this is the final weekend before the big day. I went to the bank recently to do some backing and I was at May Bank and OCBC which just happen to be on the same stretch. The funny thing was May Bank stated they had run out of new $10 notes and these will come only the following week. while OCBC stated they had run out of new $2 notes but had plenty of new $10 notes !! I guess if you wanted new notes you had to queue up twice !! Off to continue with my house cleaning.

11.1.11

So 11 Jan 11 has come and gone. The ‘O’level result have been released and my alma mata SJI had the top Eurasian Student. Was really surprised to see that in the papers. Great job. Next day the papers had the article on people staying over night to be first in line for …. get this registration to kindergarden and that is only in 2013 !! What’s up with that !! Do I need to registered my kids now then !! Soon it’s going to be once you deliver and when you submit the name and particulars of your kid you can also sign up for their kindergarden classes one stop shop for everything for your child’s education. The missus actually has started checking out little kindies, I remember my kindergarden days, I think I went to a few as we move around a bit, I just knew I cried alot ha ha … and there were sweets to eat and cereal and cornflakes which I hated as they gave us milk with that and I hated milk. Love the playground as I remember this huge stone like structure that you can climb around in. Ah well guess once the missus makes up her mind, I’ll probably need to get myself a sleeping bag and an iPad to keep me entertained through the night.

Blog Changes

Ah finally did some changes to the blog, well actually just minor changes like updating the 2011 resolution list in the side bar as well as putting a link to some items I am selling, actually just stuff that I have spares of which I decided to sell off like my microstar collection, football card collection, trading card collection, comics, toys, and my camera mugs collection.

Resolutions 2011

Well last year was not a very good year for resolutions so I hope this year I would at least complete them. Have been thinking about what I should put as my resolution for this year and finally settled on these 5 New Year Resolution for 2011.

1) Catalogue my Comic Collection

This has really taken ages to do I did zero entries last year basically just too busy with the kids. But I hope this year I would be able to do more and I have already setup my PC for the long haul data entry so at least it’s a start. Just hope the PC starts up and my data is not lost ha ha …

2) Complete my Star Wars Toy Collection

It’s an old set actually about 3 or 4 years old I have no idea how many figures are in there that I need to complete but I know I am missing quite a few it’s a 60 figure set if I am correct. Have to start digging them out again. This is probably the hardest resolution to complete as not sure if the figures are still available around here and hope they are cheap. I know I got all the McQuarrie figures so it’s the others that I need to track down. Time to hit those flea marts ….

3) Built my Lego AT-AT

It’s about time I got this done I had it for like 3 years now and not worked on it yet. Just hope the parts have not disintegrated over the years ha ha  … May even have time to take a coupe of pictures always wanted to do that and I even had kept toilet rolls which I wanted to paint to recreate the Endor battle scene.

4) Finish 2 X-Box Games

Decided to lower some expectations to this as I might not have time to complete but have started by at least bringing out the machine into a place where I can access it for playing. Got my guidebooks and web sites ready for when I get into trouble ha ha …

5) Improve on 3 run times
Now that I had complete 1 Marathon I as debating if I should try a triathlon or maybe a biathlon but I think I’m not so ready for that. So I have decided to improve on my previous year’s run times. They were not fantastic times last year seems as I get older it gets slower so it’s time to arrest that slide. I definitely would like to try out again for the Singapore Marathon, full distance 42.195km (6hr 13min 24sec) the other run which I have always liked would be the REAL run and going for the 15km (1hr 58min 34sec) the third run was something I am still contemplating as want to be a half marathon distance and was thinking of the Sunsdown or Bay Run. I might go with the Sunsdown (2hr 44min 33sec) as it’s in the first half of the year so that it does not clash with the other 2 and also plan only to run 4 times this year and I have already signed up for the 2XU run. Well need to get going and sign up for it else have to go with the PAssion Run.

So that’s my 5 resolutions for the year and this time I will do a quarterly update on progress for the above 5 resolution instead of doing a year end review probably that would help motivate me a little to complete come of them !!

1.1.11

The first day of the year ….. time to remember to write your cheques with the correct date, tear your parking coupons correctly, sign and date your items with the proper year and throw away your old calenders.

Still trying to figure out what to put in my New Year’s Resolution, probably will do that tomorrow, have a couple of ideas in mind. It being all one’s today I figured I should start the year on the right note and went for a run at MR, turns out it had to rain half way through my 5km run and I had to run in the rain most of the way back. All wet but surprisingly it was an enjoyable run. Hope to keep that up through out the year.